haineshisway
Senior HTF Member
I don't think a single paragraph consisting of five lines is going on and on about anything. I don't see anything in this paragraph about how I'm one of the only people qualified to make a judgment because I've used a telecine. If you can find that here, please show it to me. If you're going to attack someone personally and specifically, which I was not doing in my post, do try and not make up things. You got personal in your first post and more insulting in this followup. It's not sporting, you know For your reference, here is my post:Chuck Pennington said:You went on and on how people criticize releases with claims of DVNR and such and how you are one of the only people qualified to make a judgement either way because you've used a telecine. If anyone disagrees with you, they must be fools and not have eyes.
Robert Harris has since posted that it doesn't look all that right to him also, so it isn't just me.
"Awful? I must be watching a different transfer of Gentleman Prefer Blondes. First off, you can't cry DNR and then say it has detail - it's on oxymoron. This transfer is VERY sharp. I have no idea what it was taken from, but compared to The Seven Year Itch, which is brown and ugly-looking, this is a stellar transfer and looks very much like the IB Technicolor prints of that era, which were not, I repeat not, larded with grain. Singin' in the Rain, while a noble effort, doesn't look anywhere near what it should look like because it's many generations away from the camera negative. Again, you cannot have DNR and detail without shoving up the edge enhancement tools to sharpen and there is not a whit of edge enhancement in this transfer. There is a LOT of detail and it's VERY sharp."
Mr. Harris, who I consider a friend and a great guy, and I have disagreed before and I'm sure we'll disagree again. I like this transfer. You don't. Horse racing. I'm not watching via projection on a huge screen - as I said in Mr. Harris's thread, maybe that's an advantage for those of us who have tiny sixty-five inch displays.